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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m unloading the dishwasher.\u00a0 Music is playing.\u00a0 Randy Owen (Alabama Band) sings one of my favorite old hymns with The Isaacs and I’m right back there in places where I first learned the song.\u00a0 Follow the music to the Deep South during the ’40’s and ’50’s and find a story.<\/p>\n

Off the highway and down a dirt road, nearly impassable during heavy rains, in a clearing just big enough to embrace a small building, stands a sweet little church.\u00a0 It was built long ago by a community who walked miles to get here or rode in wagons carrying food to share after worship. We make the trip decades later in our big old very used sedan.<\/p>\n

This church has no full-time pastor.\u00a0 It’s not much different from the circuit-riding preacher days of Little House On The Prairie.\u00a0 Daddy, one of several ministers from other towns, travels here to conduct worship or sometimes to say words over a departed member of the congregation.\u00a0 They don’t meet every Sunday.\u00a0 They meet when a minister is available.\u00a0 Today it’s our family’s turn.<\/p>\n

It’s a Sunday afternoon, after Daddy has already preached at our own church.\u00a0 Mother’s home resting, waiting for the birth of our new baby.\u00a0 If she’s well, she sometimes comes along to sing, but today it’s Daddy, my brother, Leslie Ray and me.\u00a0 A visiting preacher might bring his own guitar, but it’s not necessary. It doesn’t take many souls to fill this chapel with song.<\/p>\n

Today, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, when I hear families blending like Randy Owen and his cousins in Alabama <\/strong><\/em>and The Isaacs’<\/strong><\/em> exquisite harmonies, I think of my family singing our own homey version when any one of us started off with this song.<\/p>\n

Click the picture for Randy Owen with The Isaacs,\u00a0 I Need Thee Every Hour<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>******<\/strong><\/p>\n

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